US NAVY PAGES
NAVAL ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY
VOLUME 1, NAVAL ORDNANCE
Prepaired by the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery
United States Naval Academy Edited and produced by the
Bureau of Naval Personnel
NavPers 10797-A
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office
Washington 25, D. C. Price $1.75
1957 edition revised from the 1955 edition
PREFACE, VOLUME 1
CONTENTS
Historical Foreward
Chapter 1 Introduction to Ordnance and Gunnery
A. General
B. Scope of the Text
Chapter 2 Explosives
A. Introduction
B. Explosive Reactions
C. Service Explosives: Propellants
D. Service High Explosives and Primary Explosives
Chapter 3 Ammunition
A. General
B. Propelling Charge
C. Primers
D. Projectiles
E. Fuzes and Tracers
F. Bombs
Chapter 4 Armor and Penetration
A. Types of Armor
B. Penetration
Chapter 5 Elements of Guns and Mounts
A. Introduction
B. Features of modern naval guns and mounts
C. Conclusion
Chapter 6 Gun Barrels and Interior Ballistics
A. Introduction
B. Elements of gun design and maintenance
C. Interior ballistics
D. Erosion
E. New developments in gun design
Chapter 7 Turret Installations
A. Introduction
B. Gun and breech assembly
C. Slide assembly
D. Elevating, traning and sight gear
E. Ammunition handling
F. Turrets equiped with case guns
G. 6"/47 dual-purpose gun and turret
H. 8"/55 rapid-fire gun and turret
Chapter 8 Semiautomatic Weapons
A. General
B. Five-inch 38-caliber assemblies
C. Five-inch 54-caliber assembly
Chapter 9 Automatic Weapons
A. Introduction
B. 20-mm aircraft gun
C. 40-mm guns and mounts
D. 3"/50 rapid-fire guns and mounts
Chapter 10 Automatic Control Equipment
A. Introduction
B. Synchros
C. Electric-hydraulic systems
D. Amplidyne follow-up system
E. Other types
F. Shipboard tests of automatic control equipment
Chapter 11 Rockets and Guided Missiles
A. Rockets and the rocket principle
B. Rockets fired from surface craft
C. Aircraft rockets
D. Guided missiles
Chapter 12 Torpedoes
A. Introduction
B. Head section of a Mark 15 type torpedo
C. Air system of a Mark 15 torpedo
D. Superheating system of a Mark 15 torpedo
E. Main engine of a Mark 15 torpedo
F. Control systems of a Mark 15 torpedo
G. Tail section of a Mark 15 torpedo
H. Aircraft torpedoes
I. Other types of torpedoes
J. Above-water torpedo tubes
Chapter 13 Mines
A. General
B. Aircraft mines
C. Mine warefare
Chapter 14 Antisubmarine Weapons
A. Antisubmarine warfare
B. Depth charges
C. Depth bombs
D. Throwing weapons
E. Nets and booms
Appendix A
Safety precautions
Appendix B
Velocity-loss data curves (5"/38 gun)
Index